Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-01-06
OUR NEXT SENATOR.


nesday night definitely settles the
question which has agitated Ne
yada during the past SIX months.
The fieures-Stewart, "a; Wren,
8; Pownine, I; did not in the least
surprise anyone at all conversant
with Nevada politics.
1t has been a crashing rebuke to
the traitors in the Republican
camp, these men of blasted hopes,
great expectations and small aSili
ties, who have, in a puny way, tried
to sink the Republican ship by
boring holes in its bottom. Never,
in the history of the Republican.
party In this State, has the treach-
cry of the party's enemies been SO
malicious, unmanly and contempt
ible. 1t was an unusual sight;
that of an ex-Republican Congress
man vieing with an ex-RepublIcan
Congressional nominee in frantic
efforts to prevent caucus.
Year after year, Thomas Wren
Of Eureka. has placed himself in
nomination as a candidate for the
u. S. Senate. He never had the
slightest idea of being elected, and
nobody else had, bat it kept his
name before the people, and he
was inwardly thankful for that,
Whenever Senatorial campaign
was in progress Wren was in the
habit of sitting up on his political
coffin, knocking his skeleton kauck-
les on the lid, reading the inscrip-
ton on the brass plate 50 as not to
forget his name, and then relling
over again he would sleep peace
fully for four years. This time he
got clear cut and CRASHED his teeth
at the party.
Wren was never the timber for
the u S. Senate, and if he ever
was, the timber has been turned to
charcoal, so that he is now nothing
mere than a carboniferous memery.
1t was a cruel quietus that Fish,
Of Washoe. gave to Powning. He
nominated him ia the caucus. The
nomination was not seconded, and
Fish gave him a solitary vote. He
ought to have spared the poor fell
low the humiliation of seeing the
words at the bottom of the list:
Powning, /.
Had this not been done, Powning
could have told his credulous Reno
constituents that he had 10 votes
and gave them all to Wren; but
Flsh's action has closed up even
this little crack. and there is moth
ing left to crawl through. Now
this blatent little political jacka-
snaps has received his final quietus,
which, but for the pity due his
youth, would have been given long
ago.
The fight has been of incalclla-
BILE benefit to the party. The cleo
ton Of Mr.. Stewart gives it a lead
err and head, a man of energy and
generalship. 1t will forever squelch
the miserable Mugwump crowd
who have for years been to
the party the sources of all its
troubles. N
The victory will not be complete
until the traitors are all welded
out. There must be no half way
measures. The men who have
toiled for years in the heat of the
dav, and stood by the principles
while they saw drones and trouble
breeders enjoying the ease and in
delence of high positions, will not
in the hour of victory longer toler-
ate the presence of such men in
camp.
The body polite of the party
must be swept Of all its vermin and
sleansed of its skin diseases. In
the hour of triumph. however, we
must bear in mind that the Demo
Gratis acted like honorable men and
refused any utilization with the
traitors in the Republican camp.
We can shake hands with them as
friends and during all future politi-
cal struggles recall their honorable,
decent warfare.
The men who voted for Wren
and Powning had Alright to do so
having gone into caucus and agreed